Banoffee Pops
THIS SHIT IS BANANAS.
I've been seeing banoffee cake EVERYWHERE lately. It was a mystery to me. What is this caramel banana biscuit pie and why does everyone love it so much?! I needed to put this to the test, but I wanted to do a creative spin on it, naturally.
When I'm trying to eat healthy, I really need something sweet to hold me over, so my go-to is a chocolate covered banana on a stick. It tastes and feels like ice cream, but it's a banana so HEALTH. 😬🍌
THEN, it hit me. BANOFFEE POPS. Take all the goodness of banoffee pie and put it on a stick. This was a fun one. First, I took bananas and put them on a stick. Then, made my dulce de leche by putting a can of sweetened condensed milk in boiling water for 3 hours and VOILA: DULCE DE LECHE.
Next, I took vanilla wafer cookies and I crushed them up by placing them in a baggy and hitting them with a rolling pin (this is fun and very therapeutic). I combined whole milk and vanilla extract and put the crushed cookies into the milk, resulting in a cakey yet crunchy flavor.
I dipped the bananas in the caramel and rolled them in the cookie crumbs, and HOLY SHIT THEY WERE LIFE CHANGING.
Banoffee Pops
Yield: 6 pops
SUPPLIES:
1 medium pot
1 medium bowl
plastic baggy
INGREDIENTS:
6 baby bananas (if you can't find babies, cut 3 normal-sized bananas in half)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 box vanilla wafer cookies, crushed
1/4 cup whole milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
STEPS:
Make Caramel: Place can of sweetened condensed milk into a medium pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook at a simmer for 2-3 hours. The longer you cook it, the darker the caramel will become. Remove can from the pot and place on a cooling rack for at least 30 minutes.
Note: You want to cool this for at least 30 minutes, if you try opening it when it's too hot, the built up pressure could cause the hot caramel to shoot out.
Prepare Bananas: Place bananas on a stick and put on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place the bananas in the freezer.
Make cookie crumb: Place vanilla wafer cookies into a large resealable bag and and crush them up by hitting them with a rolling pin until roughly ground. In a medium bowl add vanilla extract and milk and combine. Place the crushed wafers into the medium bowl with milk and stir to combine until it resembles pea sized cake crumbles.
Assemble: Open your can of caramel and dip each banana into the caramel, then dip the banana into your cookie mixture. Place on parchment lined sheet tray. Repeat until all bananas are covered. Place bananas back in the freezer to set (about 30 minutes) and enjoy!